Here's a fun error: "not syncing vfs unable to mount root fs on unknown block" I'm running CentOS7 on Linode and happened to run into this error on one of my systems. Quite unusual, so I did the quick and dirty method and restored a backup of my VM....
I discovered a fun git command that I wasn't aware of before. git switch -c <new-branch> Using git switch, you can take existing, uncommitted files and move them to a new branch. Say you're working in the master branch and want to move those changes...
Well, maybe not so hidden, but definitely not advertised. Vudu has an API that, for the life of me, I could not find advertised anywhere, even with an advanced Google search. So, I'll take it upon myself to scrape their webpage and dissect their ho...
I didn't realize until recently that you can run DynamoDB on a local machine on either Windows, Mac, or Linux. This obviously can be hugely benefitial for learning and dabbling in DynamoDB, without racking up a large AWS bill. Let's see if we can get...
I've dabbled quite a bit in the Amazon Product Data API, so I wanted to share an example of how to query is using Python3 and the Amazon Product Data API version 5. You'll need to go through the steps to sign up for a product API account yourself. O...
Building off the previous blog post in which I query Azure SQL from a Linux machine using Python, we're going to apply the same principals to a Flask application. If you're unfamiliar with flask, check out my other guide on Building a Flask App in 5...
